Create a Team in Microsoft Teams

Topic Overview

Within Teams it is possible to create a Team which provides a "hub of collaboration" to a group of individuals.  Collaboration through Teams offers threaded discussion, file sharing/Office document co-editing, instant/ad-hoc meetings and support for many third party tools.

Creation Process

• Click the 'Join or create Team button'

  • For Grid View the button is located in the top right of the screen

  • For List View the button is at the bottom left of the screen
    
    

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• Choose 'Create a team'
  
  

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• When prompted, choose the type of Team you want to create

  • Choose a team type to collaborate in Microsoft Teams [External Link]

  • Class, PLC and Staff Teams are created with a customized OneNote

    • Staff Teams are best for use by a department

    • Other Teams for general purpose

    • Only Faculty and Staff can create a "Class" and "PLC" type of Team
      
      

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• When prompted you can add users to the team using the People Picker.  Enter partial or full name, NetID or email address (external users)
  
  

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• For each user added to the team, assign their role as Owner or Member

  • We recommend at least two owners are configured in each Team
    
    

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Additional Teams How-To Pages